 These baronies belonged to the same order as earls, and these earls and barons together formed the order of the three "estaits" of the Scots Parliament known as the baronage of Scotland.The barons sat in the Scots Parliament until 1587, when they were relieved from attendance, which was burdensome and costly.The right of pit and gallows was removed in 1747 by the Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746, lesser powers continued to the twentieth century.